Being called out by the teacher for good grades

I'd say not! That definitely doesn't happen in our school. But congrats on your A. Our chemistry teacher did used to say "highest score in the class" when he passed back our exam papers. He didn't say it really loud, but anyone around could hear! LOL I was usually the *second* highest grade, but once I was the highest.

Anyway, I'm sorry you were embarrassed. I suppose if the teacher is approachable you could say something. I don't think I personally would because I'm afraid of having conflict with my teachers!

Kelly

It's actually a privacy violation for a professor to tell anyone what your grade is, good or bad.

In our state, it's illegal.

This is a problem for parents who are paying for children's college and want to see grades and they are sent to the student instead of the parents.

I don't like the teacher telling grades - it seems to foster resentment in classmates. Back in first semester, I was behind a curtain trying to cath a mannequin... and the skills teacher hollered "Hey! she got 100 on the quiz and she's practising caths! What are the rest of ya doing?!"

I wanted to die. It's one thing if somebody asks and I tell my score, quite another if it's screamed out by the instructor.

Yes, it was wrong for the teacher to tell everyone the OP's grade. However, the teacher meant no harm. I think the best way to handle it is:

1. Laugh it off at the time. Don't make a big deal of it. Accept the situation gracefully and don't draw further attention to yourself by making a big deal of it.

2. Privately ask the teacher to not do that again. Explain that your privacy is important to you and that you would prefer that the other students not know your grades. The teacher will probably realize that she made a mistake and try not to do it again. If you come on too strong, it might make the teacher unnecessarily defensive. If the problem continues, go higher up the chain of command.

You might also want to use this opportunity to examine your own feelings and maturity about the public success/failure. In the work world, everyone knows who is doing well and who is performing poorly. Charge nurses need to know everyone's skill level in order to make appropriate assignments. The nurse following you needs to know if the patient received a wrong med. You'll need to ask "stupid questions" to assure the patient's safety. Your orientation may need to be extended. etc. etc. etc.

While we might all like our performance abilities to remain private ... that's not how the work world is. You might use this experience to reflect on that and prepare to handle the more public nature of the nursing career that you are beginnng.

OUCH! Congrats on doing so well on the exam, and I am sorry this happened to you. Your teacher was well-meaning but unfortunately she doesn't understand that grades are confidential and it is not legal for her to share your grade with the class. I understand how you feel about this b/c it can sometimes seem like you have a "target" on your back once classmates figure out you're the one getting the highest grades. Unfortunately it can breed some resentment towards you on the part of less mature classmates.
I would approach your instructor in private and ask her in a polite way not to share your grades in the future b/c it makes you feel uncomfortable. It's a nice way to get your point across without telling her she was wrong to tell the class.

My instructor calls out top 3 students...not the actual grade. I personally think it's a good goal to shoot for, but as someone who works FT, doesn't get a chance to read in detail all the time...it's very good if I pass. This semester, every test has been above a 80....passed em all! So with 2 units and the final left, I think I'm gonna be ok.
That being said, an instructor should not call out your actual score.....that's up to you. I think it's ok if the instructor says you were one of the top 3.....just my Opinion.

My instructors have a habit of telling me how well I did in front of the whole lab or atrium, if I haven't checked yet, and I often have the highest score in the class (knock wood, I'm only halfway through) - they'll tell me that too. It used to bother me, mostly because I read on here how you shouldn't share your grades with anyone for fear of resentment. It doesn't anymore - I'm proud of how well I'm doing, and I do still have friends. In fact, my entire clinical group does really well, and gets more As than anyone else in our school right now (again, so we've been told) despite being accelerated and taking more classes. A little competition is healthy, as long as it doesn't consume your life. My classmates tend to come to me with questions...that's not a bad thing. I don't know if this is helpful or not. If you're really uncomfortable, or if it happens again, just ask the instructor privately not to announce it. I'd certainly rather them announce my 100 than my 60, but that's just me.

I guess technically, the instructor did not have a right to say that you got a 100%. I can see how it would be embarassing to have all that attention brought to you (I'd definitely turn red ), but it is positive attention. This isn't med school where you are competing against your classmates. In nursing school you get what you get and if that's a 100% you should be proud and your classmates should be happy for you!! I wouldn't go around bragging to everybody about it-that would be wrong/annoying, but this instructor wanted to give you recognition for a job well done--take it (but keep your humble attitude) and just continue to do your best and be a good/helpful student and classmate.

My clinical instructor for Ob/Ped's did this to us. There was 8 of us in the clinical group and everytime we had an exam or quiz, he would look up the grades and during clinicals tell all of us what the other scored.

Thankfully my clinical group is the best clinical group ever -- we all have a weird sense of humor and pick on each other all the time (in fun of course) -- and we always share our grades with each other anyway.

It was probably very inappropriate for our clinical instructor to do that, and he will probably run into problems in the future with a clinical group who are offended by him doing that.